Water-motor



Patented Jan. 1, 1889.

H. E. TRUMBLB.

WATER MOTOR.

(No Model.)

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HENRY E. TRUMBLE, OF lsLAMAZOO, MICHGAN.

WATER=MGTCR SEtl-LFCATGll forming part ot' Letters Patent No. 395,529, dated January l, 1889.

Application filed August S, 1838. Serial No. 281,871. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY E. '.intuinnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalalnazoo, county ot' Kalamazoo, Stato oli' Michigan, have invented a new and useful lVater Motor, ot' which the following is a speci tication.

This invention relates to motors iu which a piston` is employed, which piston is au tornatically oscillated by the tlowiu current of water, or other element. ot' power7 through the vtiuuie in which said piston is located. This idea is illustrated in a pending application ot' mine, dated March 27,18%,Serial No. GStS, in which application the piston as disclosed is composed ot a bar pivoted at one end in the .tlume and another bar jointedlv attached to the free end oi the. pivoted bar.

The object ot the present invention is to construct a motor ot' this class employing only a single bar pivoted at one end so as to oscillatc, and constituting the piston.

Referring to the drawings forming a part of this speciiication, Figure l is an elevation, parts being broken and one wall of the flume or water-chest being removed; Fig. 2, a plan showing parts in section on line 3 S in Fig. l, looking from a point above; and Fig. 3 is a section of parts on line 2 2, looking from a point at the right.

Referring to the letters marked on the drawings, B is an upright liunie or chest, having an induction-port at the upper end and an eduction-port at the lower end, or, more properly speaking, as here shown, the eduction or exhaust ports are at the lower end ot the upper part ot' the chest, as will appear farther on. shown, is supported in an upright position by legs C; but it may be located in any position desirable.

At A is a transverse slide, which has slidebearings in the ilunie B, in which bearings the slide plays laterally during the operation. Figs 2 and 3 show this clearly. This slide has two exhaust-ports through. it, which ports are closed by doors D. These doors are pivoted in the port-s at a point a lit-tie off from the center of said doors, so that when they are released they will be swung open by the pressure of water, as will more clearly appear in the description of the operation.

The fiume or chest B, as here l The piston (l, consisting olf a bar or )late, is pivotnlly attached at one end to the slide A at a point between the exhaust-ports. (See Fig. The other end ot' the piston is left. i'ree to oscillate from one side oi' the [lume l to the other near the iuduction-port.

ln Fig. ll the water or other element ol` powerl is supposed to be llowiug into the fiume ll al the right side ot the piston (il, the wateren the lett side having exhausted b v forcing the door D oi:l the lett-hand exhaustport open, which action took place as soon as the door was released `from the horizontal part of the lett-hand wall` oi1` the tlume or chestmthat is, as soon as the slide A and piston a assumed the position they occupy in Fig. l the water pressing on the door tilted it open, because the lett-hand end ot' said door has a greatersurface at the lett ol the pivot oi' said door than at the right oi said pivot. lt will be observed that when the slide A and piston a move to the right the right-hand door automatically closes by coming in contact with the right horizontal wall of the chest, and will thus be held closed unt-il the slide moves far enough to the left. to release the door, the saine as the lett-hand door was released, as above described. To return to the action of the water which has entered at the right of the piston u. The pressure of the water will oscillate the pivoted end ot the piston over to the lett side of the flume, and of course will carry the slide A with it, automatically closing the lett-hand door and releasing the right-hand door in like manner as above described in relation to the movement of parts in the other direction. lVhen the pivoted end ot the piston a reaches the left side of the tlunie, the upper end ot said piston tilts over against the right side oit said tlume at the upper end, the same as said upper end tilted to the position here shown when the lower end oscillated to the right side. Thus the upper tilting end of the pisl= ton directs the current of water -first to one side of the piston and then to the other, thus automatically keeping up an oscillation ot the piston and a reciprocating movement of the slide by the action. ot the water flowing through the iiuine B. This action would take place if the exhaust-ports were lett open, and the motor maybe so used by dispensing with the doors D and making the slide A skeleton in form, so that the water will not be retarded by it; but by having the exhaust-ports alternately open and close greater power is secured from a given amount oli' water.

A motor oli' this kind is equally applicable for a meter for measuring liquids and fluids passing through it by associating a register with the device. 'lo transmitmotion to other machinery, a piston-rod ma)v be attached at any suitable point to the slide A. A good plan is to use a piston-rod, F, havingl a forked end astraddlc ot' the .tlume and pivotally attached to projections r, extending laterali)Y trom the slide atf. Thus arranged the piston-rod reciprocates with the slide A.

Havingtllus described my invention, what l' ela-im isl.. The combiuat ion oi asuitable ilumeharing induction and eduction ports, a pistou consisting oi an oscillating bar or plate in the plane ot' the viiowing water through the flume, and a slide reciprocating transversely in the fiume and to which one end of the piston is pivoted, substantially as set iorth.

2. The combina-tion of a suitable Hume, a slide reciprocating transverselyv in said flume, having exhaust-ports, automatically operative doors pivoted in said ports, and a single plate pivoted at one end to said slide and pivoted in the exhaust-pm'ts oil l'rom the center oi said doors, and a piston oscillating in the plane ol the [lowing water iu said [lume and pivoted to said slide between the exhaust-ports, sulistantiall)v as set i'orth.

In testimony ot' the foregoing l, have hereunto subseribed my naine in presence olf two witnesses. 

